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  1. Re:This has taken much too long. on Debian Sarge Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Yep thats fine, but lets not forget that Ubuntu/Knoppix need to start with Debian..

  2. Re:Only 12 months security support of old releases on Debian Sarge Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, but I've paid for Windows 2000. I can move to sarge for free with a simple dist-upgrade.

  3. Re:This has taken much too long. on Debian Sarge Coming Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes those are the STABLE releases, and it takes that long to ensure that they are STABLE. When Sarge is released most of its packages will already be out of date, but STABLE. If you want to use debian on the desktop, do a minimal stable install, change your apt.sources to unstable, and do a dist-upgrade and install the packages you want. You'll end up with your ubuntu/knoppix'y type desktop system with up to date releases.

    I wish people would stop moaning about stable! It isn't a desktop distro! It is for those that want to do an 'apt-get install apache' and KNOW it won't fail. That means a lot to admins.

  4. Re:UK has Shazam Already on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 1

    Yup not only that, but so has the 'listen to' and 'identify' id3 tagger mentioned... oh well. http://www.musicbrainz.org/

  5. Re:Maybe i don'd understand how it works? on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yup exactly, so the problem is with the website, not the google proxy. The same problem would occur with any proxy for a website which uses IP address to determine the same user. Websites should be managing sessions.

  6. Re:I, for one, welcome on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even more worrying, Google has two left hands.

  7. Re:Whats that fat lady doing here? on Sarge is Now Frozen · · Score: 4, Funny

    HA. Basic... Programmers!! Hahahah.

  8. Re:Umm, Yep! on The Future of Databases · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Imagine for example, you want to use a database to store information about packets flowing through your network. Thats all dandy on normal network links, but if we are talking about a multigigabit link, it is likely that your hard disk can't keep up with storing that data. Or that the hardware to do so would cost too much. So instead you could take every second packet and look at that, and approximate. This particular example is refering to data stream management systems.

  9. Re:First Post People Suck on Microsoft Demands Removal Of Longhorn Images · · Score: 4, Funny

    I liked the classy way the Shut Down button doesn't fit on the menu. "Shut Do..." Do what!!!?

  10. Re:Does anyone understand this? on $10B Annual Tab for Spreadsheet Errors? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yup, and this idea isn't purely with spreadsheets. I used to work for a large supermarkets logistics dept. We used to key in, by hand, orders for stores from suppliers etc all the time. Not a week went by without a store receiving thousands of cases of a product due to a typo..

    But how do you check these things? In a business which might be shifting millions of cases of product a day, how do you flag up a couple of thousand, which for any other order, might be quite a reasonable number. And well, the ground staff just did as they were told without questioning.. which is maybe the worrying thing.

  11. Re:Worst. Acronym. Ever. on U.S. Military's Hackers · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Technology Without an Interesting Name...?

  12. Re:It's the speed... on Short Lifetimes of Optical Drives? · · Score: 1

    Yah my older drives all worked fine and still do for reading, but now with combo fast drives I have a CD writer which will write but not read, and a DVD drive which reads fine for a few seconds then makes a clonk noise then readers for another few seconds *clonk* etc. I would agree that they either don't make em like they used to, or they are trying to pack too much into the same drives... at least until they get better at it.

  13. Re:automated responses to probes? on Aggressive Network Self-Defense · · Score: 1

    I have had mild successes before by not attacking them, but just 'letting them know I'm watching'. Often addresses will be spoofed, so there is no point in retaliating by trying to break into or DoS the IP address you have.. but I have had long term probes stop several times by just running an nmap against the probing IP, or running a few ssh connection attempts..

  14. Re:Nothing wrong with revisiting the decision on Hope for Hubble · · Score: 1
    However they do have grammatical errors right on this very page you gave us link to. :)

    Uhhhh.. .. nah.
  15. Re:Good idea to me on Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs · · Score: 1

    This is what our uni does when a 'scanning virus' hits. They monitor the network traffic for the appropriate traffic signature, and then automatically connect to the stack and disable the switch port.

  16. Re:Uhhh... on Al Gore Invents Internet TV · · Score: 1

    And where are these google stats going to come from?

  17. Re:Science by AI on The End of Mathematical Proofs by Humans? · · Score: 1

    Someone always has to program the computers.

  18. Re:I do not see any change on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    hmmm, I'm sure the whitehouse roof isn't quite that plain in real life :-)

  19. Re:Gigabyte, gigapixel artwork? on Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod down.

  20. Re:Crashing house? on A Different Way To Recycle Old PCs · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, in cars you generally do have to press the start button/twist the 'start' key to turn it off...

  21. Re:Truth stranger than fiction? on iCopulate Romances iPods, Executive Pong · · Score: 1

    Funding the IRA?? Terrorist!! :)

  22. Re:Certainly not -- they're scrapping the Win32 AP on Microsoft Lifts Curtain on Indigo Software · · Score: 1

    A PPT? Do they stop you from saying presentation just in case it is mistaken for the Impress format? lol.

  23. Re:Hurray! on Kazaa Outed Over 'Trust Fund' for Red Cross · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep, but once they are finished with Kazaa, who is next? Hopefully not the edonkey network...

  24. Re:for the clueless on A Crazy Cambridge Contraption · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Honda commercial wasn't original - it copied an old short film Der Lauf der Dinge (The way things go)... Imdb link

  25. Re:That's strange... on Problems With the Firefox Development Process · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the article talks about "review". You need a lot more knowledge about the codebase to do a decent review than just that little widget or feature you wrote as an add-on... we're talking broad overview of the entire codebase.